I've found a bug in the Prime...possibly serious

[webmasterpdx]

I believe I've found a bug in the code. At first, I thought I'd just corrupted my calculator, but I managed to crash the virtual version on the PC too....


Type the following verbatim...

<Home>

S1:="dogs you too cool" if it asks if it can create the variable, hit OK

S1(1,1e9) <Enter>

On my machine, it reboots the calculator. On the PC, it crashes the virtual calculator.

I've done it with just 18 blanks as the string, but I originally found this in CAS mode and it was inconsistent. Certain variable names didn't fail, but just gave me a bad index error.
I think what's happening is it's actually trying to index 1e9 into the string which is a memory leak/intrusion into bad space....which could be a way to get into the system if exploited....if understood :-)

I also found when running this from CAS, I lost some of my history .....sometimes....

The steps above with S1 seem to be the most consistent way to force this failure.

I've gotten it to fail with S1:=" "
However, it doesn't fail with S1:="" (null string).

Can someone at least try this to confirm it.
Thanks
-Donald